owner of /etc /boot and / (related to can't su thread???)
Michael A. Peters
mpeters at mac.com
Fri Jul 8 14:06:06 UTC 2005
On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 08:17 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
> They *have* to be root ownership? What is there which will not function
> if they are not root ownership?
Stuff with the suid bit comes to mind - that bit says to run it as if
the owner of the file was running it. Since that owner is no longer
root, it will not run as root - and therefore fail.
When you mess up that big - unless you have a way to restore all
permissions, it really is best to reinstall.
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